Tag Archives: poverty

Standing up for what we believe in — My Sunday Column for Glendale-Burbank-Pasadena Papers

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

For people who came of age in the Roaring ’20s or the Great Depression that followed, this is déjà vu all over again, a moment in history that must make them feel like they have taken a step back in … Continue reading →

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LA Times Discovers: ‘We Are A Third World City’

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: No institution in Los Angeles bears more responsibility for the city we have become than the LA Times — escept for the political, business, labor and civic leadership which it has cultivated and supported for its own purposes. … Continue reading →

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LA, State Job Losses, Poverty Keep Rising and It’s Only Going to Get Worse

Posted on September 17, 2010 by

Eleven weeks past the July 1 deadline for a state budget, the elected officials in Sacramento still don’t have an answer to the more than $20 billion deficit their mismanagement created. New Census figures on Thursday showed the poverty rate … Continue reading →

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A One-Way Ticket Out of Town — How New York Helps the Homeless

Posted on July 30, 2009 by

I have long harbored the idea that LA — where poverty has increased faster than anywhere else in America except Detroit — should pay people to leave town and start a new life somewhere else. It’s not the kind of … Continue reading →

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